We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.